From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:13:57 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] remote-curl: add testing for intelligent retry for HTTP Message-ID: In-Reply-To: > I modified it to use echo as the standard, it turns out apache handles > properly terminating lines for you > with CRLF. As for the lone echo, a double CRLF signals the end of the response > header and the start of the body. Curl doesn't behave properly without it. You misunderstood me. I wasn't questioning the need for a blank line. I found the inconsistency puzzling that all the previous ones (above) were done with printf and the later one was done with echo.